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We wanted to leverage the power of ”community” and encourage the spirit of innovation and collaboration when it comes to data storage. What better way to do that, then with a podcast appropriately titled ”What’s Spinnin’? with 45Drives”. However, it won’t just be us! A lot of our industry partner friends are going to come along for the ride, too!
Episodes

Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
55 min
In this episode, Brett sits down to chat with Rich Teslow from @2GuysTek to discuss how he got started with his passion, leading to a YouTube channel, and a deeper discussion on @ProxmoxVE and storage #virtualization, plus much more!
May 7, 2024
May 7, 2024
27 min
In this special episode, we are chatting with John Stapleton, who has spent the last 25+ years working in IT. John is currently a customer of 45Drives and is works at AGADA Biosciences. Their mission is to offer a depth of knowledge and experience in surrogate biomarkers and outcomes to each client's pre-clinical and clinical projects and trials, with expert guidance on robust experimental design, data generation, and data interpretation that brings sponsor confidence in making their drug development decisions. We dive into their current storage infrastructure (Ceph and Proxmox Clusters).
Apr 18, 2024
Apr 18, 2024
57 min
In episode 6 (our season 2 finale), we chat with Jay LaCroix, the fearless leader of Learn Linux TV. With over two decades of experience supporting and educating users on Linux professionally, Jay provides a wealth of knowledge with over 600,000 YouTube subscribers. We also chatted with Jay about his published books and training training for Linux-related concepts.
Feb 8, 2024
Feb 8, 2024
46 min
In episode 4, we sit down to chat with Alex Tran, the founder of IMMICH. We wanted to ask Alex about the origin story of IMMICH, his extensive DISCORD community, and his experience with the #HL15 from #45HomeLab (among other interesting topics).
For full video version: https://youtu.be/sZIEu6u-3qo
https://immich.app/
Feb 6, 2024
Feb 6, 2024
Jan 30, 2024
Jan 30, 2024
57 min
In episode 3, Brett and Mitch sit down to chat with Alex and Stephen from the Self-Hosted Podcast.
We talked about starting in IT and the early challenges of creating a podcast for the self-hosted community. Which episode has been their favorite so far? We're also excited to hear about their impressions of our new #HL15 product from #45HomeLabs.
For full YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEwQaTwXeo4
Jan 29, 2024
Jan 29, 2024
58 min
In episode 2, we are going to dive into some pretty incredible education on hard drives! Brett & Mitch will be sitting down to chat with Alan Nagl, who has over 40 years of experience in the hard drive industry with extensive research on the technology. If you think you know everything about the past, present and future of hard drive technology - think again.
Full video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxIqle_sgJ0

"What's Spinnin' with 45Drives"
We wanted to leverage the power of ”community” and encourage the spirit of innovation and collaboration when it comes to data storage. What better way to do that, then with a podcast appropriately titled ”What’s Spinnin’? with 45Drives”.
However, it won’t just be us! A lot of our industry partner friends are going to come along for the ride, too!
